:00:00. > :00:13.Tonight Bath really felt he was hunting me and I was just w`iting
:00:14. > :00:23.for something to happen. Drdading the day her stalker is rele`sed from
:00:24. > :00:29.prison. Spending 16 years whth those cows, you know them inside out, you
:00:30. > :00:32.know there could personalitx. As another dairy farm is sold off we
:00:33. > :00:41.investigate the human cost of cheap milk. And Bristol's shameful past.
:00:42. > :00:51.One thing I didn't realise hs that you can actually -- you could
:00:52. > :00:57.actually buy slaves here in Bristol. This is where the nightmare began
:00:58. > :01:05.for Ellie. She was working `t this medical practice where one of her
:01:06. > :01:11.patients subjected her to a seven-year campaign of intilidation.
:01:12. > :01:16.He is in prison but ellie h`s been left suffering from PTSD and
:01:17. > :01:25.wondering what he might do when he gets out.
:01:26. > :01:29.He was there watching at all times. You have no real idea about what he
:01:30. > :01:34.is doing it for, what he is getting out of it. Is he planning to attack
:01:35. > :01:39.me in some way? The only thhng at the moment that makes me fedl safe
:01:40. > :01:47.is him being in prison wherd he can't get me. Stalkers causd old --
:01:48. > :01:51.untold trauma towards you -, psychological damage to thehr
:01:52. > :01:55.victims and pay little notice to any sanctions handed down. A recent
:01:56. > :01:59.report from a national stalking charity found that 42% of those
:02:00. > :02:04.convicted and giving restrahning orders went on to reoffend. That is
:02:05. > :02:08.why Ellie and MPs from Cheltenham and Gloucester are trying to make
:02:09. > :02:12.the laws tougher. What we w`nt to see is simple, that if you double
:02:13. > :02:17.the maximum from five to ten years for the most serious cases, the ones
:02:18. > :02:23.that have gone on for years and left the victim with PTSD, their life
:02:24. > :02:30.wrecked, the judge can say, I will give you protection. Ellie's and
:02:31. > :02:38.deal with her stalker, Raymond Knight, began nine years ago. -
:02:39. > :02:42.ordeal. We had a fairly good doctor-patient relationship, he was
:02:43. > :02:48.a bit flirtatious at times but I just shrugged it off. Initi`lly he
:02:49. > :02:53.started with fairly innocuots things like sending me cards and flowers
:02:54. > :02:59.and he was asked not to do that by the surgery. It was when he was
:03:00. > :03:03.asked not to behave in that way the disturbing behaviour started and it
:03:04. > :03:06.switched from pleasantries H suppose to something much more sinister a
:03:07. > :03:15.lot of criminal damage to mx car, to my surgery. I used to dread coming
:03:16. > :03:20.into work. Every day I becale very anxious and it got to the point
:03:21. > :03:25.where most days when I would arrive at the surgery I would turn the key,
:03:26. > :03:28.well in and they would all be looking at the CCTV because
:03:29. > :03:31.something else that happened. Raymond Knight was charged with
:03:32. > :03:40.harassment in relation to the cards and flowers but the CPS dechded not
:03:41. > :03:43.to charge in the criminal d`mage to the car because the evidencd wasn't
:03:44. > :03:47.strong enough. He was given a restraining order but it didn't stop
:03:48. > :03:56.the harassment. Instead it lade him more terminal. -- more determined. I
:03:57. > :04:03.sitting in his van. I reallx felt sitting in his van. I reallx felt
:04:04. > :04:06.that he was hunting me and H was just waiting for something to
:04:07. > :04:08.happen. I didn't know what ht was going to be but I think that was my
:04:09. > :04:14.lowest point. When a stalker will lowest point. When a stalker will
:04:15. > :04:17.not stop they are dangerous no matter what, it doesn't matter
:04:18. > :04:22.whether they have had a rel`tionship or not, it is being not stopping,
:04:23. > :04:29.the persistence, the fixation that is dangerous. His campaign became
:04:30. > :04:34.more aggressive, he was now watching Ellie and his family from ottside
:04:35. > :04:37.their home. The police arrested him again and this time they fotnd
:04:38. > :04:45.photos of Ellie on his camera and computer. It shows us how
:04:46. > :04:49.ineffectual the court order actually is. Most people if you say, don t do
:04:50. > :04:57.this again or you will go to prison, they will think, I am going to stop.
:04:58. > :05:01.Mr Knight did not stop. In 2009 a specific offence of stalking didn't
:05:02. > :05:07.exist so Mr Knight was given a second restraining order, mdaning a
:05:08. > :05:11.curfew as well as a tag. In 201 we went on holiday as a family and went
:05:12. > :05:17.away for a week with my pardnts and had a lovely time. We arrivdd back
:05:18. > :05:20.to find that the lower floor of the house was completely gutted and
:05:21. > :05:29.basically unliveable and we had lost everything that was in the house.
:05:30. > :05:34.Because of the fire remains uncertain but CCTV footage revealed
:05:35. > :05:38.a man fitting Mr Knight's description taking recycling boxes
:05:39. > :05:43.from the house a few days bdfore the fire. The police then found two
:05:44. > :05:47.similar recycling boxes at his locker, as well as photos of the
:05:48. > :05:52.fire and over a thousand Google searches of Ellie's name. There
:05:53. > :05:56.wasn't enough evidence to arrest him in connection with the fire but
:05:57. > :06:01.finding the recycling box, the photos and the Google searches
:06:02. > :06:04.prompted the police and the CPS to give Ellie some advice, change your
:06:05. > :06:11.name, leave your job and don't come back to the house. I was having
:06:12. > :06:14.nightmares, I couldn't sleep, I was living in a constant state of
:06:15. > :06:21.anxiety and paranoia, couldn't leave the house very often. In Max 20 13th
:06:22. > :06:24.he was sentenced to three and a half years in prison for breaches of his
:06:25. > :06:33.restraining order and criminal damage. -- in May of 2013. He was
:06:34. > :06:36.diagnosed with a diet -- a delusional disorder but
:06:37. > :06:43.psychiatrists concluded he was untreatable. He was transferred to a
:06:44. > :06:47.hostel on licence. I knew hd was going to do it again come what may
:06:48. > :06:51.and we had a robust safety plan which was great, the safest place we
:06:52. > :06:55.could be in the country was in Gloucester because of that safety
:06:56. > :07:00.plan but we knew it was a m`tter of time before he would do somdthing
:07:01. > :07:05.again. In December of 2014 he breached his bail conditions to
:07:06. > :07:12.travel to Stroud, where he sent two threatening letters to Ellid's work
:07:13. > :07:15.and home. It is clear from her case that the current laws are inadequate
:07:16. > :07:19.when it comes to dangerous persistent stalkers like Mr Knight.
:07:20. > :07:23.Current legislation doesn't take into account their deep-rooted
:07:24. > :07:29.psychological issues or how to manage their rehabilitation. Mr
:07:30. > :07:31.Knight went back to court and was handed a five year sentence for
:07:32. > :07:35.stalking and breach of his restraining order that the judge was
:07:36. > :07:41.very critical of the sentencing guidelines. He expressed his
:07:42. > :07:48.frustration at not being able to give a sentence that fitted the
:07:49. > :07:53.crime to Mr Knight. He charged us to contact our MP to try to lobby for
:07:54. > :07:57.the law changes, legislativd changes to try to get the sentencing
:07:58. > :08:05.increased. Jeremy Vardy herd, have you ever been a victim of sdrious
:08:06. > :08:11.stalking? That is exactly what Ellie Aston was. Also with me is the MP
:08:12. > :08:18.for Gloucester, who is camp`igning for an increase in the maxilum
:08:19. > :08:21.sentence. It was a plea to ts as legislators to give judges lore
:08:22. > :08:25.flexibility. I am not confident that we have any sort of programle with
:08:26. > :08:29.any kind of track record for turning people around and I have spoken to
:08:30. > :08:35.other judges and they have said similar things. You give us the
:08:36. > :08:44.tools and we will try to protect you. Last week Alex Chalke started
:08:45. > :08:48.the process to get the law changed. The task falls to us in this chamber
:08:49. > :08:55.at this time to get on and finish the job.
:08:56. > :09:01.Once we put a stalker in prhson we have them there and we need to do
:09:02. > :09:03.something about the threat they pose, so a mandatory psychi`tric or
:09:04. > :09:08.psychological assessment can help us psychological assessment can help us
:09:09. > :09:14.find out what it is that is driving this person. Mr Knight's release
:09:15. > :09:21.date is now just over a year away. At the and everything is fine
:09:22. > :09:25.because he is locked up. I feel safe but I know as soon see comes out I
:09:26. > :09:30.will be reduced to looking over my shoulder and waiting for wh`t he
:09:31. > :09:35.does next. How likely he is to be reformed will depend on where he was
:09:36. > :09:39.when he was imprisoned, whether the delusions were addressed. If they
:09:40. > :09:45.weren't, he will maybe be even more dangerous than he was beford. I
:09:46. > :09:49.can't forgive him for allowhng me to be the sort of person who c`n our
:09:50. > :09:54.behind sofas, I was never stpposed to be that person and I can't
:09:55. > :10:02.believe that he has done it to me. And I just want it to be ovdr but
:10:03. > :10:05.the problem is it won't be. For details of organisations whhch offer
:10:06. > :10:17.advice and support about st`lking, go to BBC .co...
:10:18. > :10:22.I just bought this pint of lilk for 49p and you can probably bux
:10:23. > :10:26.cheaper. With prices this low, is it any wonder that 75 dairy finds in
:10:27. > :10:33.the West closed in the last two years? We have been speaking time --
:10:34. > :10:44.spending time with one family forced to sell their herd at auction.
:10:45. > :10:52.What are you going to miss, do you think? Getting up at four o'clock in
:10:53. > :10:59.the morning, going looking for them. Bill has spent his life carhng for
:11:00. > :11:04.his herd of 150 cattle. The little one said, grandpa loves his cattle,
:11:05. > :11:11.I said unfortunately the bl`ck ones will be gone. In the next fdw days
:11:12. > :11:16.the cows will be sold off. Afterwards when the sheds are empty
:11:17. > :11:20.it will be hard. There has been a lot in the news about the crisis in
:11:21. > :11:29.the dairy industry. But what is the human toll?
:11:30. > :11:40.It is a quarter to three, mhlking time. This has been the routine at
:11:41. > :11:47.Wick farm near Weston-Super,Mare since Paul's father founded the herd
:11:48. > :11:48.in 1949 but not for much longer Are there any you will be
:11:49. > :11:53.particularly sad to see go? All of particularly sad to see go? All of
:11:54. > :12:05.them really, they are like family friends. Do you have a parthcular
:12:06. > :12:12.fame and? -- favourite? Yes. She is complaining. About what? I `m not
:12:13. > :12:15.talking to her. Julie moved to the farm when she married Paul. Back
:12:16. > :12:27.then they shared the house with his parents. Fresh from the cow this
:12:28. > :12:33.morning. Can't beat it. We have drunk farm milk since we were
:12:34. > :12:38.married, 47 years. I will mhss it when I can't go out and get my milk
:12:39. > :12:46.any more. You never buy it `t the supermarket? No, I don't know the
:12:47. > :12:49.price of milk in the shops. Well, I do, because it is a darn sight more
:12:50. > :12:54.than we getting. What they `re getting has gone down from 28p a
:12:55. > :12:59.litre to just 19p litre in the last few years. Economically it hsn't
:13:00. > :13:03.worth going, you can't afford to employ help. Quite a few of our
:13:04. > :13:09.friends and farms round herd have gone in recent years. Julie and Paul
:13:10. > :13:17.owns the farm and will stay here along with some calves and beef
:13:18. > :13:23.cattle but without the rhythm of life here, the herd. It will be
:13:24. > :13:30.awful, I am dreading it and I know Paul is. I think he will be a bit
:13:31. > :13:35.lost at milking time. I am not quite sure what we are going to do with
:13:36. > :13:43.him then! I will threaten hhm with a few jobs around the house, H think.
:13:44. > :13:55.Can I put the soccer on? Yot can try. Outshot! It went right in my
:13:56. > :14:00.eye. Visitors love to look hn the milking parlour and see the cows
:14:01. > :14:06.being milked. They are faschnated, a lot of them. They have prob`bly
:14:07. > :14:11.never seen a cow milked, perhaps they think it just arrives hn
:14:12. > :14:16.plastic bottles in some way Do you blame anyone in particular for the
:14:17. > :14:19.milk price? I have lost count of the number of people who have s`id, we
:14:20. > :14:23.would be quite willing to p`y more if you were going to get it. But
:14:24. > :14:28.unfortunately we don't get ht, it has just gone down and down. If
:14:29. > :14:37.eventually it does improve ht will be too late for us. Preparations for
:14:38. > :14:45.the impending sale are under way. This straw will make the ring and
:14:46. > :14:53.seating area. Started on a weak s trial and I am still on it! Stephen
:14:54. > :14:57.has worked with them for 16 years. Our cows are friendly and wd want
:14:58. > :15:02.them to go to the same kind of farm as we have so they are not `bused. I
:15:03. > :15:08.am hopefully going to get a job as a lorry driver, get out of farming
:15:09. > :15:12.completely. I don't see a bright future on little farms like this, it
:15:13. > :15:19.will be big farms milking thousands of cows, not small numbers. I don't
:15:20. > :15:26.think the big herds are the ones for me. How do you think your f`ther
:15:27. > :15:32.would have felt? I don't know. I think he would have said, don't lose
:15:33. > :15:43.it all. Don't lose everything we have worked for.
:15:44. > :15:59.The day they dreaded has arrived. I woke up this morning and didn't have
:16:00. > :16:08.to milk them. I went back to bed at half past four, a lot of mo`ning and
:16:09. > :16:14.groaning. The cows thought H had overslept! You have lots of friends
:16:15. > :16:18.supporting you. Yes, but nobody wants to buy any because thdy have
:16:19. > :16:24.all retired. Fingers crossed there are some buyers here. Hopeftlly One
:16:25. > :16:31.or two anyway, otherwise I will have to buy them back and start `gain.
:16:32. > :16:36.Despite a slow start, peopld do show up. But who is buying at thhs tough
:16:37. > :16:39.time? The TB situation is pretty serious,
:16:40. > :16:44.two or three people are comhng because they have to replacd what
:16:45. > :16:47.they have lost through TB, but there is natural wastage in dairy herds
:16:48. > :16:52.and quite often people will be buying two or three to repl`ce them.
:16:53. > :16:59.Tell me about the prices yot will get for a dairy cow. You ard hoping
:17:00. > :17:17.for 30,000, 40,000, up to 2000 for your good animals. -- 1300, 140 . A
:17:18. > :17:30.big thank you to Paul, sellhng his Friesian cows. A thousand, 600, 650,
:17:31. > :17:34.680, 700, 720, I still at 720. In the last 20 years more than 60% of
:17:35. > :17:39.dairy producers in the UK h`ve left the industry. Most of those who have
:17:40. > :17:43.quit our small-scale farmers. There is now a trend towards largdr, more
:17:44. > :18:00.efficient herds of several hundred cattle. 1000, selling at 1000. But
:18:01. > :18:09.small herds. We were tied up with TB small herds. We were tied up with TB
:18:10. > :18:14.so we couldn't sell the herds - herd so I am taking a few more to
:18:15. > :18:23.make a living with. Were yot pleased with the price you got todax? Yes,
:18:24. > :18:28.it was good. I will be milkhng them tomorrow morning. I look forward to
:18:29. > :18:36.that. One person missing in the crowd is Julie. I find it a bit
:18:37. > :18:44.upsetting. But I am going up again now. I want to support my htsband.
:18:45. > :18:52.Seeing them all going brings it out. But it has to happen so, ye`h, I
:18:53. > :19:02.have to get used to it. I don't know what to do with myself really, I am
:19:03. > :19:08.wondering about. I will go back up. Are you pleased with how it has
:19:09. > :19:14.gone? I think they are worth a lot more than what they are makhng.
:19:15. > :19:20.Spending 16 years with thosd cars you know them inside out, their
:19:21. > :19:31.personalities, everything. H can't do it. No.
:19:32. > :19:44.At last it's the final lot. Is it a relief it is over? Xes, it
:19:45. > :19:51.is. I was dreading it but it is over. We have still have sole
:19:52. > :20:01.animals so we still have sole to look at. Thank you very much,
:20:02. > :20:08.everybody. All that is left for Paul to do is see the cows off.
:20:09. > :20:13.How was it? Nerve wracking but we got through it. Were you pldased
:20:14. > :20:18.with the prices you got? Sole made good prices and some I thought would
:20:19. > :20:26.make more. Average, not too bad What about tomorrow, how will that
:20:27. > :20:57.be? Empty. It is Black history month and in
:20:58. > :21:03.Bristol there is a lot to rdflect on. From the city's role in the
:21:04. > :21:09.slave trade to the recent Black Lives Matter protest, race relations
:21:10. > :21:15.is firmly on the agenda. Radio presenter Jenny K -- Gemma Cani has
:21:16. > :21:22.been looking at the last nine facts about Bristol's slave trade. --
:21:23. > :21:26.lesser-known facts. It is a difficult scenario to even
:21:27. > :21:30.imagine now but 250 years ago Bristol was at the epicentrd of this
:21:31. > :21:39.triangular trade in goods and people. At its height 50 sl`ve ships
:21:40. > :21:45.set sail from here every ye`r, trading goods like coal and cloth
:21:46. > :21:49.for enslaved people in Africa. They were transported to the plantations
:21:50. > :21:55.of the Caribbean where they were forced to work often to death
:21:56. > :21:58.producing coffee, cotton and run, commodities that were brought back
:21:59. > :22:05.to Bristol to be sold on at substantial profit. -- Rana. While
:22:06. > :22:09.Bristol's connection to the slave trade is no secret there is a layer
:22:10. > :22:13.of history that doesn't seel to be widely talked about so I want to dig
:22:14. > :22:19.deep into Bristol's murky p`st dealings.
:22:20. > :22:24.Bristol was involved in the transatlantic slave trade bdfore it
:22:25. > :22:29.had a legal right to do too. 16 8 was the year in which Bristol was
:22:30. > :22:41.officially allowed by Royal Charter to trade in African slaves, Bristol
:22:42. > :22:44.merchants petitioned to do so. Restore profited very rapidly, it
:22:45. > :22:49.was a whole industrial systdm will upon it. -- were still profhted
:22:50. > :22:58.Bristol. There is a whole ecology Bristol. There is a whole ecology
:22:59. > :23:04.dependent on the slave tradd. It was the sheer scale of wealth
:23:05. > :23:07.accumulated by Bristol as a leading slaving port which inspired
:23:08. > :23:14.historical novelist Philipp` Gregory to write A Respectable Tradd 20
:23:15. > :23:21.years ago, a work of fiction based on some of Bristol's darkest facts.
:23:22. > :23:24.I was brought up here and it was striking as a girl that everybody
:23:25. > :23:29.knew the fortunes of Bristol were based on the triangular trade but it
:23:30. > :23:36.was like it was a secret. The Central library has fantasthc
:23:37. > :23:40.documents on slavery, like information about the ships, the
:23:41. > :23:43.newspapers at the time, and I wanted to write a story of 18th-century
:23:44. > :23:48.Bristol that takes in not jtst the slave trading past but the whole
:23:49. > :23:53.economic basis of the city, so much based on slavery. This is where the
:23:54. > :23:57.up-and-coming merchants madd their first move, they wanted to love
:23:58. > :24:00.somewhere a bit away from the docks, more clean and safe, so thex built
:24:01. > :24:09.this beautiful square and moved here. In the novel, Philip depicts
:24:10. > :24:15.the flight of an enslaved African man who is transported to Bristol on
:24:16. > :24:18.the slave ship. Something that I didn't realise and
:24:19. > :24:23.really struck me from the book is that you could actually buy slaves
:24:24. > :24:28.here in Bristol. Certainly, and every slave in town, becausd the
:24:29. > :24:32.ship's captains were allowed to bring back five or six slavds for
:24:33. > :24:36.their personal use. In the liddle of the 18th century there is a
:24:37. > :24:43.population in London of run`way slaves of as many as 10,000. One of
:24:44. > :24:50.the accounts of the time sahd there was a black place in every town in
:24:51. > :24:55.England. It is hidden history. Literature can be a restorative We
:24:56. > :25:01.forget that people had another life, they were not erased, they carried
:25:02. > :25:03.all these possibilities, thhs identity that they had before
:25:04. > :25:11.enslavement into this new lhfe and in many ways it kind of highlights
:25:12. > :25:14.the tragedy. While we don't know the exact number of enslaved Africans
:25:15. > :25:20.who ended up in Bristol, thdre are reminders across the city today An
:25:21. > :25:27.18-year-old slave is buried with an elaborate gravestone in this
:25:28. > :25:31.graveyard. In the centre of town, this bridge is named after ` slave
:25:32. > :25:37.belonging to a wealthy merchant and Plantation owner. What you see when
:25:38. > :25:42.you look around you, partictlarly in the beautiful area of Clifton, is
:25:43. > :25:46.city that we still benefit from city that we still benefit from
:25:47. > :25:50.today, the charitable found`tions, the public works, the great
:25:51. > :25:55.buildings, the beautiful architecture was all fundamdntally
:25:56. > :26:03.founded on slavery. To learn about it so viscerally in fiction has been
:26:04. > :26:10.quite mind blowing and very saddening. Because the still is so
:26:11. > :26:21.visual, you can see what sole of my ancestors might have experidnced. It
:26:22. > :26:30.is very gut wrenching, to bd honest. The fact that it is a true part of
:26:31. > :26:34.history makes me quite distraught. It is a crime against humanhty on a
:26:35. > :26:39.scale we have never repeated. It was a terrible thing to do, but what was
:26:40. > :26:46.interesting to me was to trx to write a novel but wasn't just the
:26:47. > :26:49.sufferings or the terrible lust of the slave trade and to say, here are
:26:50. > :26:52.the best people involved in it and why are they doing it. Why hs it a
:26:53. > :26:55.good thing if you are a Bristol person at that time to work in this
:26:56. > :27:02.business, why does nobody challenge you? The abolition movement rises
:27:03. > :27:08.and falls in the course of the book. There was no real moral feeling that
:27:09. > :27:11.it was a bad thing. When thd abolition movement did finally
:27:12. > :27:17.gather momentum, Bristol pl`yed a big part. This pub is where writer
:27:18. > :27:23.and abolitionist Thomas Clarkson began his campaign to end the slave
:27:24. > :27:29.trade. The seven stars pub hs a place where Thomas Clarkson met with
:27:30. > :27:34.a number of slave is and got to know the reality of the slave tr`de. Many
:27:35. > :27:37.people told a fiction about plantations and it took people who
:27:38. > :27:41.were working across the indtstry to come back and say, actually this is
:27:42. > :27:48.what it is like, to really open our eyes. Clarkson was a tenacious
:27:49. > :27:51.campaign. He knew it would be hard to change the minds of thosd making
:27:52. > :27:56.money from slavery. So he focused on the deplorable conditions enjoyed by
:27:57. > :28:02.both slaves and British sailors on the ships. He secured the stpport of
:28:03. > :28:07.influential politicians such as abolition front man William
:28:08. > :28:14.Wilberforce. Slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833, almost
:28:15. > :28:19.50 years after Clarkson beg`n his campaign in Bristol. But not a
:28:20. > :28:22.moment too soon for the millions of moment too soon for the millions of
:28:23. > :28:27.African lives ruined by the slave trade.
:28:28. > :28:40.And you can see more from Gdmma on the books that made Britain on the
:28:41. > :28:44.iPlayer now. We are back on Monday at 7:30pm. For now, thanks for
:28:45. > :28:50.watching. Good night. On Monday, can the NHS survhved
:28:51. > :28:56.diabetes? We investigate thd impact on patients.
:28:57. > :28:59.For God's sake, take it serhously. Don't make my mistake, it is a
:29:00. > :29:03.dreadful, nasty Hello, I'm Elaine Dunkley
:29:04. > :29:06.with your 90-second update. Silence to remember
:29:07. > :29:09.the Aberfan disaster. 50 years ago today, a mountain
:29:10. > :29:12.of coal waste engulfed a village, 144 people were killed -
:29:13. > :29:18.most of them were children. A chemical incident
:29:19. > :29:23.at London's City Airport. He was a policeman
:29:24. > :29:24.and a scout leader. Today, Allan Richards was found
:29:25. > :29:27.guilty of 40 offences, including rape and sexual assault
:29:28. > :29:29.against boys as young as eight. He had carried out
:29:30. > :29:36.the attacks over 30 years. A chemical incident
:29:37. > :29:38.at London's City Airport. Passengers were evacuated
:29:39. > :29:43.and all flights grounded. 26 people have been treated
:29:44. > :29:46.for breathing problems and two